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======  Minute of meeting on 2018.01.31 ======

===== 1.  Attendees  =====
-- Alexander Pawlitzki (Thales-Alenia Space, Germany) \\
-- Austin Lesea (Xilinx) \\
-- Dan Elftmann (Xilinx) \\
-- David Lee (Sandia Labs) \\
-- Eliot Glaser (Northrop Grumman) \\
-- Frederick (Eric) Brinlee (Boeing) \\
-- Gary Swift (meeting moderator, Swift ERS) \\
-- Hagen Schmidt (Airbus DS, Germany) \\
-- Heather Quinn (Los Alamos National Lab) \\
-- Jim Devereaux (Xilinx FAE) \\
-- Joseph (Joe) Marshall (BAE) \\
-- Luis Berrojo (TAS-E, Thales-Alenia Space, España) \\
-- Michael Fliesler (Xilinx FAE) \\ 
-- Mike Wirthlin (BYU) \\
-- Paul (Pablo) Nunnally (Xilinx FAE) \\
-- Ron Brown (BAE) \\
-- Ron Smith (Northrop Grumman) \\
-- Scott Arlo Anderson (SEAKR) \\
-- Sebastian Garcia (Slabs) \\
-- Stephen Thomas (Boeing) \\
-- Steve Pearl (General Dynamics) \\
-- Victor Liau (Hughes Network Systems) \\


===== 2.  Topics covered =====

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Paragraphs below are comments made by Gary (unless otherwise indicated).


Next Wednesday Feb. 7th, Pierre Maillard will be doing a **special presentation about the recent Xilinx tests on US family**.

**Test campaign 2018 on Kintex Ultrascale KU060**. Beam time funding and other resources gathering: similar to last week status.

** Additional Virtex-7 testing **. Maybe will have news soon, as BAE is interested.

** Latchup suppression experiment for Zynq Ultrascale+**. Heather will confirm in brief about the availability of neutrons beam time.
Gary would like to perform the latchup test in April, during the KU060 tests. The DUT samples request will have a delivery time of at least 6 weeks. Having MIL quailfied parts, the latchup testing could be performed at 125ºC. Will need some development effort on the functional tests to be performed, in order to verify that the part is still working correctly after the DD. E.g., counter, ring oscillator. 
Doug Sheldon (JPL) may provide to Mike (BYU) some useful internal JPL documents.

Regarding JCM, Mike says they have the SelectMap now working on 8, 16 and 32 bits, with DMA. Tested with Virtex-7 and Artix-7 boards. Will need to test it with an US board.
Gary comments he would like a feature in JCM, for SEFIs management. 

About BYU's hybrid scrubber, Mike comments that for UltraScale support they will need the help of Xilinx, regarding possible proprietary schemes in the implementation of the frame CRC.
Dan suggest meeting at a separate telecon call for this, together with Eric, Pierre and Austin.
Mike proposes to give a **special presentation on the 7-Series hybrid scrubber**, for establishing a baseline. Proposed date: 2018.02.28.

**Development of Infrastructure** status. STS is capturing the schematic of the gen-4 motherboard. There's still a small board that need to be designed/built, an FMC adaptor card for the FuncMon side, to talk to the FuncMon datahose. By switching to the ConfigMon based on the JCM, we will be getting out of the room with an Ethernet cable. 

**V-7 (2017) campaign data analysis.** We've got new thickness measurements on the actual DUT that went into the beam, courtesy of Filmetrics, West Covina, CA. The measurements were sampled on a dense 25x25 (x,y) grid. Will be interesting to do a special presentation about this, and maybe present a summary of techniques and lessons learned at the SEE Symposium.  
We are improving the events discrimination on the IOSERDES data. Regarding BRAM, we still need to complete the understanding of the clobber events. Clocking data analysis was improved; we still need to re-process the V-5 data with the new method, for an apples-to-apples comparison.

**Annual meeting preliminary date: August 20th to 22nd.**

Dan comment on the performance of the MGT xvers on ceramic substrate (KU060 space product): A quick review of this week was positive for 10Gb/s. The design review will be on April.








